We already goofed on this year’s Williams-Sonoma catalog, but plenty of readers have alerted me to the fact that, on an annual basis, the Restoration Hardware catalog is a far more insane enterprise. And they’re right. It’s bigger, more pretentious, more expensive, and has way more useless crap. This year’s RH catalog came with a note from CEO Gary Friedman, along with his photo…

I was on the Jersey Turnpike when I saw it. I was driving my family to New York for Thanksgiving and there, along the shittiest stretch of road in the shittiest state in America, I saw the Williams-Sonoma fulfillment center: a vast hangar that seemed to stretch a mile long, with shipping containers lined up along the side, like piglets feeding on a series of artisanal teats. It was located in a town called Cranbury because of course it fucking was. It made me wonder if Williams-Sonoma chose the town of Cranbury specifically for the whimsy of it, or if they CREATED the town and christened it Cranbury just so that it could match their mission statement of bringing holiday cheer and $75 baskets of glazed figs to the world.

By now you know that U.S. Soccer has fired head coach Jurgen Klinnsman (immigrants losing their jobs already smdh) and will reportedly replace him with retread Bruce Arena, which is boring and lame. If people really want soccer to flourish here in the US, they need to stop trotting out these has-beens and losers and look for some fresh blood.

]]>balls deepsoccerdrew magaryscreamerus soccerusmntMon, 21 Nov 2016 21:30:00 GMT1789231606True story: Greg Howard was in Slack one day and said pizza isn’t anything special and I wanted to khttp://deadspin.com/true-story-greg-howard-was-in-slack-one-day-and-said-p-1789151241True story: Greg Howard was in Slack one day and said pizza isn’t anything special and I wanted to kill him.

]]>funbagballs deepdrew magarypeeing on yourself at the beachwhat the hellTue, 8 Nov 2016 19:20:00 GMT1788695585Also voted Hillary in the primary.http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/also-voted-hillary-in-the-primary-1788695125Also voted Hillary in the primary.

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I tweeted about this yesterday, but I’m gonna put the take here because maybe you’re already freaking out about Tuesday and starting to drink heavily. Here’s the deal: Donald Trump is going to get his ass kicked. Anyone who says otherwise is either a) afraid of jinxing it and/or making Hillary Clinton voters complacent (understandable); b) afraid of being wrong (Nate Silver); c) supporting Trump; or d) interested in making this a “horse race” for the sake of maintaining public interest (most of the television media, along with grotesque shitbags like Mark Halperin).

This week’s Foodspin takes us to Brooklyn. BROOKLYN! Pickled beards! Strollers made from discarded almond husks! Dickheads! You know the deal. Anyway, our cooking master for this episode is stoner food god and former Top Chef contestant Dale Talde, who served us a bacon pad thai that was the best goddamn pad thai we’ve ever eaten, with nary a pile of useless bean sprouts to be seen on the plate. This is easily our food-porniest installment of food porn yet, so feast thine eyes and then make it yourself.

This week’s episode of Foodspin takes us to historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where Burneko and I sampled Civil War-era game pie and pumpkin fritters. I am going to assume these were pro-Union dishes, and therefore NOT racist food. I assume this even though you can buy a SHITLOAD of Confederate souvenirs at virtually any gift shop in Gettysburg—those people know that’s a rich share of the marketplace.